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		Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. C. Boyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paige VanZant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. H. Bradley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Cole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Rendell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoe Wanamaker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackson Pollock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Clarke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Secunda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Padgett Powell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Clayton 
			 
			
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		Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taufik Hidayat 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Stein